UNITED: Protesters gathered at Sisters Beach in response to BP’s proposed oil dig in the Great Australian Bight. North-West Tasmanians stood united with Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson at Sisters Beach to highlight the threat of BP’s proposed oil venture on the coastline.

The proposal would see BP drilldeeper in Australian waters than the Gulf of Mexico, where drilling caused the2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

SenatorWhish-Wilson said the drilling would createthe potential for a “catastrophic oil spill” along Tasmania’scoastline.